itérer

See also: iterer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iterāre (infinitive iterāre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.te.ʁe/

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Verb

itérer

1. to iterate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written itérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written itèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of itérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	itérer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	itérant /i.te.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		itéré /i.te.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	itère /i.tɛʁ/	itères /i.tɛʁ/	itère /i.tɛʁ/	itérons /i.te.ʁɔ̃/	itérez /i.te.ʁe/	itèrent /i.tɛʁ/
	imperfect	itérais /i.te.ʁɛ/	itérais /i.te.ʁɛ/	itérait /i.te.ʁɛ/	itérions /i.te.ʁjɔ̃/	itériez /i.te.ʁje/	itéraient /i.te.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	itérai /i.te.ʁe/	itéras /i.te.ʁa/	itéra /i.te.ʁa/	itérâmes /i.te.ʁam/	itérâtes /i.te.ʁat/	itérèrent /i.te.ʁɛʁ/
	future	itèrerai or itérerai /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁe/	itèreras or itéreras /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁa/	itèrera or itérera /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁa/	itèrerons or itérerons /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	itèrerez or itérerez /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁe/	itèreront or itéreront /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	itèrerais or itérerais /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	itèrerais or itérerais /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	itèrerait or itérerait /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	itèrerions or itérerions /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	itèreriez or itéreriez /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁje/	itèreraient or itéreraient /i.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /i.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	itère /i.tɛʁ/	itères /i.tɛʁ/	itère /i.tɛʁ/	itérions /i.te.ʁjɔ̃/	itériez /i.te.ʁje/	itèrent /i.tɛʁ/
	imperfect2	itérasse /i.te.ʁas/	itérasses /i.te.ʁas/	itérât /i.te.ʁa/	itérassions /i.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	itérassiez /i.te.ʁa.sje/	itérassent /i.te.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	itère /i.tɛʁ/	—	itérons /i.te.ʁɔ̃/	itérez /i.te.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “itérer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• étirer
• étrier
• retire, retiré